Frank J. Tassone

Month: February 2021

  • Tanka for the end of the cold

    Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: sun melts its butteron afternoon fields wind blowsstill winter sharpdig deep into warming earthplant spring unfold summer For Frank Tassone’s haikai challenge. An afternoon of gardening, clearing and planting. The smell of violets was overpowering.I cheated a bit. It isn’t cold at all now, but since Ash Wednesday isn’t…

  • Haikai Challenge #177: Still Cold (yokan)/New Year (Shinnen) — Lost in the Blizzard

    Originally posted on Tao Talk: Lost in the blizzard,my boots crunch an unknown path –still, I hear music.Their hearth blazes; plum wine flows.Sun rises pink on snowdrifts.   image link Frank J. Tassone is the host of Haikai Challenge.  Frank says:This week, let’s write our favorite haikai poem (haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, haiga, renga, etc.)…

  • Confessions of a Hue: a #haibun

    I embody it. Yes, ever-yielding, always giving way: Nonetheless, I conquer. Ask the Appalachia. They towered over Everest once. Until I fell, storm after storm, for aeons. Now, their rounded peaks, bent like geriatric backs, no longer stab the blue above. Ever the softest, yet even the diamond-hard surrenders to me. I break your heart.…

  • Today’s Haiku (February 17, 2021)

    Originally posted on Blue Willow Haiku World (by Fay Aoyagi): 流木の塩の乾びて春浅し　　七種年男 ryûboku no shio no karabite haru asashi ??????????? salt drying ??????????? on the driftwood ??????????? early spring ??????????????????????????????????????????????? Toshio Saikusa from ‘Haidan,’ (‘Haiku Stage’) a monthly haiku magazine, January 2017 Issue, Honami Shoten, Tokyo

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    Originally posted on Echidna Tracks: a deep withinthe evergreen hedgechitters of finches a    Marilyn Humbert   Lynette Arden

  • This moment

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: By Bill Waters (poem) and Robin White (photo) Published in DailyHaiga (http://www.dailyhaiga.org/haiga-archives/2867/-balancing-my-time-by-bill-waters-sa), 2/12/21. About Robin White: —> http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/robin-white/page/3/ *    *    *    *

  • “how they still cling…” a #tanka (2/17/21)

    2/17/21: inspiration–small mysteries how they still clingto their slumbering treebrown leavesare all of these words of minesilhouettes on fresh snow? #tanka #micropoetry #poetry

  • Daily Haiku: Feb. 17, 2021

    Originally posted on Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog: bedridden– the route of swallows  above my roof by Daniela Misso (Italy) Modern Haiku, Vol. 51.3, 2020